US President Donald Trump has attempted to explain away his controversial remarks around injecting disinfectant into the body in a bid to eradicate Covid-19.
"I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that by injection, inside or almost a cleaning," Mr Trump said yesterday at a coronavirus task force briefing.
"Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs."
Today, reporters asked him about the potentially dangerous remarks, prompting the following response.
"I was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen," CNN reports that Mr Trump said at a Bill signing.
When challenged that Mr Trump had asked a medical team to look into it he replied, "no, no, no, no -- to look into whether or not sun and disinfectant on the hands, but whether or not sun can help us."
Michael Mina of Harvard University called the US President “naïve”. (Source: Other)
Mr Trump's task force briefing was much shorter today than on previous occasions and he left the briefing without taking questions.
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